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Charlene Holt (Verna Charlene Stavely) actress, model, Miss Maryland. Born 28 April 1928 in Snyder, Texas, to Malcolm C. and Verna Vesta Stavely, nee Chandler they moved to Washington when she was quite young. Mrs Holt graduated from high school in Hagerman, New Mexico she then stayed with relatives near Snyder, Texas.

In September 1944 the local press printed a story from McMurry College that Charlene Holt and Porter Brooks were dating after five weeks at McMurray College in Abilene, Texas, her parents asked her to come back to Washington to avoid any controversy. Several years later she started modeling in Houston, Texas and went on to be crowned "Miss Maryland," in 1956, the predecessor of ill-fated Leona Gage. Mrs Gage after winning the next day, was stripped of her crown when it was revealed that she was married and the mother of two children. She had also lied about her age and was only 18, not 21.

July of 1956 she attends the "Miss United States" pageant in Long Beach, California. In August 1957 she is among nine models sent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Rose Marie Reid Swim Suits in Los Angeles and the Eileen Ford agency in Manhattan.

In October 1957 she starts doing TV commercials. By 1958 she becomes a $50,000-a-year model in New York at the age of 19. Around this time she is spotted in a Revlon lipstick commercial by Howard Hawks the director of El Dorado a movie Mrs Holt will star in.

October 1958 she is crowned "Miss Sweater Girl" by the Wool Bureau. The contest is held in the Crystal Suite of the Savoy Hilton Hotel in New York City.

July 1963 Rock Hudson escorts her to Cleopatra. Before the movie, she takes him to the top of the Kirkeby Building for dinner; later they return for the view. is Hollywood's new girl in New York City and the new interest of Timmie Everett. He spends his profits from Pal Joy long-distancing her. Mrs Holt is put under personal contract by Rock Hudson August 1963 she	talks it over with her bosses, Rock Hudson and Howard Hawks, and gets permission to do a "Burke's Law" episode. January 1964 the Abilene press wonders if former McMurry girl Charlene Stavely and TV actress and model Charlene Holt are one and the same

July 1964 she dates her co-star in Man’s Favorite Sport?, Rock Hudson. October 1965 	columnist Harrison Carroll tells: “Neither has answered my calls, but their friends report actress Charlene Holt and wealthy bachelor William Tishman plan to wed. She and Tishman have been waiting for a long time.”

c. 66 	films El Dorado on location in Tucson, Arizona. Her stand-in, young Lara Lindsay, will start a film career of her own.

5 October 66 	she and millionaire builder William A. Tishman take out their marriage license in Los Angeles. “Tishman, 40, spent $2 on the license Wednesday at Los Angeles County Courthouse. The price went up to $5 today.”

7 October 1966 as Charlene Stavely Holt, she marries Tishman in Los Angeles. He's 40; she's 38 but gives her age as 28. November 1966 is in Tucson, Arizona, for location filming of El Dorado March 1967 falls and pulls a ligament in her leg while skiing with her husband in Alta, Utah April 67 	she and Tishman reside in a luxurious hilltop house in Beverly Hill’s Trousdale Estates, filled with baroque antiques, a tall Spanish cabinet, and Italian chest with painted flowers, life-sized Dionysian figures in bronzed wood, and a grey-coated chef will attend the Academy Awards in a burnt peach gown by designer John Hayles January 68 	entertains over 15 million GIs on the Armed Forces Radio Christmas Show March 68 	attends a lavish Hollywood party thrown by arranger-composer Jerry Fielding with hubby Bill Tishman and joins the table-top dancing March 69 	she and Tishman file for divorce in Los Angeles June 72 	divorces Tishman in Los Angeles August 73 	returns to the movies after the breakup of her six-year marriage to Tishman September 73 	is seen lunching with Henry Berger and new psychic Dorothy Raulerson August 80 	her agent says that “she was from Texas, but was never a Stavely and did not go to McMurray College” ? 	her last known address is 37024 Brentwood, Tennessee 5 April 96 	as Charlene Holt, she dies at age 67 in Williamson, Tennessee Sources: Sunday Journal and Star, The Hammond Times, The Lima News, Mansfield News-Journal, The Kerrville Times, Daily Tribune, The Lowell Sun, The News, Movie Life, The Abilene Reporter-News, The Times Recorder, Naugatucket News, The Long Beach Press-Telegram, El Paso Herald-Post, New Castle News, www.Ancestry.com